Sunday, May 9, 2010

Simple Sunday Burtonesque style

Hello, hello!Can you believe we are already wrapping up another weekend? Yea, me either... but it does mean that I've got another installment of Simple Sunday to share with you. :)I was kinda worried about finding time to even color something up last night, simple or not. Then I remembered how I had seen Lisa create a quick and easy card using an image that she had colored up previously. Now I don't normally stamp and color before hand because I like to match my images to the colors and papers I choose for each card as I put it together. BUT I do tend to color up drawings that I'm playing around with and contemplating for possible future stamp designs to see how they would work if they make it to rubber. So I looked through my folder of colored drawings and found little Oleander, who may become part of a 'Weird Sisters' range that I've been working on for a release closer to Halloween. Any way she made me think of the new Burtonesque challenge that started up this past week so I decided to go ahead and create a quick card for her. Now the challenge is to use stripes so right away I new where to start with the design and when I came across this old Rebecca Sower button paper I just had to tear some off and add it as well. From there I raided the neglected metals drawer and found another metal rim tag as well as a sentiment... score! And the flowers were conveniently left on my desk from a previous card. All in all I was cutting it close to my 20 minute mark by deciding to trim Oleander out but I just got this one done under the wire! :)Oh and sorry for the not so great photo quality... it was tricky getting the lighting to not show the metal sentiment as a black shadow that totally got lost in the background. Sigh... they always look better in person don't they?

Oooh, Oooh, oooh!!! I literally sucked in my breath and made a sound that I can't begin to type out when I saw her!! My daughter, sitting next to me, said "Do you want that stamp?" Is it that obvious!? :-)Traci

Absolutely awesome! She is adorable and I really can't believe you made this under 20 minutes! You rock.. You're the new Rachel Ray, 20-minute crafts with Amy should be your title name if you ever decide to go National.. Hugs and Happy Mother's Day!! ;)

Amy! I'd love to be in that purrty head of yours even for just one second! You've got quite an imagination-- luv her hair, her skinny tights are awesome and her bat wings are fab! I may need to do some Halloween cards now! That pp is perfect and your composition is wonderful!